Friends of the Academy in Italy

14/12/2014

Many thanks to Peter Miller for leading the Friends of the American Academy in Rome on a contemporary gallery walk in Rome on Saturday.

15/11/2014

Are you a Friend of the American Academy in Rome? You should be. Then you could have joined us for a visit to a private palace in Rome.
http://www.gillianslists.com/2014/11/palazzos-in-rome-palazzo-colonna.html

21/10/2014

29/09/2014

André Aciman, the John. T. Sargent Writer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, will be talking about his work a the Casa delle Letterature, Piazza dell'Orologio 3, Rome on October 14 at 6:30pm

29/07/2014

We've been meeting all morning, working on exciting plans for The Friends of the American Academy in Rome for 2014/2015. Stay tuned.

18/06/2014

Thanks Chris Boswell for telling us about the garden at the American Academy in Rome Rome Sustainable Food Project

13/03/2014

Can't wait to work my way through the latest of the Rome Sustainable Food Project's newest cookbook: Vedure. We'll be planning a presentation for the Friends of the Academy in Italy at the American Academy in Rome soon, so stay tuned.

Each day, the kitchen at the American Academy in Rome prepares a buffet lunch and a seated dinner for the artists and scholars in residence there; of the fifty-two different dishes served weekly, most are purely vegetarian or vegetable-based. Eighty-five of the most popular are brought together in V...

05/03/2014

Kim Bowes will be the next Director of the American Academy in Rome. Most of you already know Kim, who is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies at the Academy. Very happy to hear she will be staying on!

http://www.aarome.org/sites/default/files/pr_en/2014kimbowesnewdirector_eng.pdf

12/11/2013

Mona Talbott cooks up a fantastic dinner in NYC in honor of Alice Waters new book/

Last night we got to hang out with Alice Waters in our very own BA Kitchen. The OG Locavore, who opened her landmark restaurant Chez Panisse over 40 years ago, has received nearly every accolade possible—most recently the Wall Street Journal's Humanitarian Innovator Award earlier this week.

24/10/2013

Please join us, on November 23, for a presentation and book signing of the Rome Sustainable Food Project's third cookbook: PASTA - Recipes from the kitchen of the American Academy in Rome with RSFP Executive Chef and author, Christopher Boswell and Elena Goldblatt, RSFP Intern in 2011.

http://www.aarome.org/events/calendar/2013-11-23?mini=2013-11

07/10/2013

Thank you all for attending the event on Sept. 23 to welcome the new fellows. It was a beautiful evening! Remember....renew your membership! We have a lot
more interesting things coming up this Fall. http://aarome.org/news/features/the-inaugural-reception-of-a-centennial-year

30/09/2013

I hope you've signed up to become a Friends of the Academy in Italy. If so, then you will already have received an invitation to our first event: A Conversation with The New York Times Rome bureau chief Rachel Donadio. I hope to see you there. Contact Tina ([email protected]) for details.